DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Jury selection begins Monday in Dawson County Superior Court in the long-awaited trial of Nydia Tisdale, the self-proclaimed citizen journalist charged Aug. 2014 with trespassing and felony obstruction of an officer. Tisdale was arrested by Dawson County Sheriff’s Captain Tony Wooten while filming a political candidate rally at Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in […]
Read More »Environmental group asks BOC to support HR 158
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Joe Cook, of the Coosa River Basin Initiative, will ask county commissioners to support House Resolution 158 when the Dawson County Board of Commissioners meets in a voting session at 6 p.m. Thursday. The resolution claims that nearly 40 percent of the $469 million collected for the state’s Hazardous Waste Trust Fund […]
Read More »BOC Considers Contract with Ga. Technical College
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Emergency Services Director Lanier Swafford was the presenter of three of the four items on the Dawson County Board of Commissioners work session Tuesday. Swafford asked the board to consider approval of a clinical contract with North Georgia Technical College in Clarkesville that would allow for EMT and Paramedic students enrolled in […]
Read More »Dawsonville Man Killed By Hit and Run Driver
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – An 80-year-old Dawsonville man as killed Monday night while walking south across Dawson Forest Road from Chestatee Worship Center toward Pinewood Trail. The Georgia State Patrol has identified the deceased as Bobby Eugene Wells and said he was the victim of a hit and run driver. Authorities do not have a description […]
Read More »Cost Continues to Mount as City Hires Another Attorney to Pursue Impeachment of Mayor
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – The effort to impeach Mayor James Grogan took center stage at Monday’s Dawsonville City Council meeting as council voted to hire Gwinnett County attorney Tony Powell to push for impeachment. Prior to that vote, Councilman Mike Sosebee made a motion to abandon the impeachment effort, but it died for lack of a […]
Read More »Loganville Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide in Fourth of July Wreck That Killed 15-Year Old Girl
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. –Brayden Lewis Clark, 21, of Loganville faces multiple charges, including vehicular homicide in connection with the Fourth of July auto accident that killed 15-year-old Eliza Farrell of Suwanee and injured four people. According to the accident report filed by Georia State Patrol Trooper T.J. Matthews, Clark, who was driving a Dodge Ram truck […]
Read More »Dawson BOC meets in rare Tuesday work session
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – The Dawson County Board of Commissioners will consider a lengthy list of agenda items during a rare Tuesday (Nov. 21) work session that begins at 4 p.m. in the Government Center Assembly Room. Board meetings are usually held on Thursdays, but this meeting was moved because this Thursday is Thanksgiving Board appointments […]
Read More »BOC May Add Fire Hydrants on Kilough Church Rd.
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Two important contracts will be voted on when the Dawson County Board of Commissioners meet in regular session Thursday at 6 p.m.in the Administration Building. Dawson County Fire Chief/EMA Director Lanier Swafford has requested that commissioners consider approval of a bid by Townley Construction to install seven fire hydrants as part of […]
Read More »Area Businesses Reopen after Bomb Threat
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – A bomb threat called in by phone to the Sonic Drive In on Dawsonville Highway (Hwy. 53 East) sent employees and customers scrambling and Dawson County Emergency Services personnel into action Friday afternoon. Hwy. 53 between Ga. 400 and Dawson Forest Road was closed for two hours while authorities investigated the threat. […]
Read More »Hazardous Material Spill Reported on Hwy. 53
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – A truck hauling an arsenic-based insecticide was involved in a two-vehicle crash Friday evening resulting in a hazardous material spill on Hwy. 53 East near the Etowah River. A 300-gallon container came loose from the truck that was traveling downhill and struck another vehicle. Dawson County Emergency Services Chief Lanier Swafford said […]
Read More »One Killed, Four Injured in Crash on Lumpkin Campground Road on 4th of July
DAWSONVILE, Ga. – A Suwanee teenager was killed and four other people injured in a two-car crash Wednesday at 9:25 p.m. on Lumpkin Campground Road at the intersection of Industrial Park Road. Killed in the accident was 15-year-old Eliza Farrell, a passenger in a 2006 Acura TSX that was struck on the passenger’s side by […]
Read More »City Council Adopts Social Media Policy
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – The Dawsonville City Council has adopted a highly restrictive social media policy that applies to all city employees “without regard to whether their social media activity is conducted in or outside the workplace, while on or off-duty.” Interestingly enough, the policy defines employees not only as those employed by the city but […]
Read More »BREAKING NEWS: Shooting in Dawson County
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — Dawson County Sheriff Jeff Johnson said authorities are investigating a shooting that took place this afternoon at the Chevron station at Georgia 400 and Dawsonville Highway. Johnson said one of his deputies was giving a man a courtesy ride to the store and had planned to give the man some money to […]
Read More »SPLOST, LOST Collection Exceed Projection
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – County Manager David Headley delivered some welcome news during the Dawson County Board of Commissioners work session Thursday. The county has made great gains in collection of the Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) and Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST). Both have performed above expectations. Bearden said revenue from both is […]
Read More »BREAKING NEWS: James Grogan To Run for Mayor Again in 2018
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — James Grogan, who lost his appeal last week to remain mayor of Dawsonville, announced today that he will run for mayor again in 2018. Fetch Your News will have a statement from the Grogan later today.
Read More »Judge Dismisses Mayor James Grogan’s Appeal
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Judge C. Andrew Fuller today (Monday, Oct. 9) dismissed James Grogan’s appeal to remain as mayor of Dawsonville. Fuller, the Chief Judge for the Northeast Judicial District, ruled the appeal was improperly filed. When reached for comment Grogan was recovering from eye surgery and said he had not heard of the judge’s […]
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